 Imagine for a second you're sitting at church and all of a sudden the pastor up at front decides to get everyone to recite the Sparkle Creed. I invite you to rise in body or spirit and let us confess our faith today in the words of the Sparkle Creed. This is pretty insane and we need to know as Christians how to respond to this type of lunacy. This video is brought to you by my patrons on Patreon. This is my full-time gig and it's you guys that support me and what I'm doing to equip people to follow Jesus daily. So thank you so much and if you want to support what I'm doing click the link in my description. I invite you to rise in body or spirit and let us confess our faith today in the words of the Sparkle Creed. I believe in the non-binary God whose pronouns are plural. I believe in Jesus Christ their child who wore a fabulous tunic and had two dads and saw everyone as a sibling child of God. I believe in the rainbow spirit who shatters our image of one white light and refracts it into a rainbow of gorgeous diversity. I believe in the church of everyday saints as numerous, creative and resilient as patches on the ace quilt whose feet are grounded in mud and whose eyes gaze at the stars in wonder. I believe in the calling to each of us that love is love is love so beloved let us love. I believe glorious God helped my unbelief, amen. Okay there were a lot of problems with that obviously but the first thing that comes to mind is that this church is trans and I don't say that to be hyperbolic but it is pretending to be something that it's not. This church is pretending to be a church. This pastor is pretending to be a pastor. This congregation is pretending to be a congregation of believers that are gathered around to worship God maybe. They're pretending to be something that they're not because they're worshiping an idol. Now the funny thing about the creed is that it says that God has plural pronouns and you look at a verse like let us make man in our image right in Genesis. Okay God is non-binary and he's a you know he's a they them. It's like no no no three distinct persons father son and holy spirit and yet one and so that's why it says let us make man in our image. It's affirming the doctrine of the trinity. That is not a they now when you watch this video it's plain to see that they are engaging in worship that's obvious but they're not engaging in worship of the true God they're engaging in worship of their own behavior their own sexuality their own beliefs their own ideology themselves putting their faith in themselves there's no faith being put in Jesus at all like when you see what they're noting in their creed right this idea that Jesus has this awesome tunic and he has two dads and it's like and God is they them pronouns that's not worship of the true God that's worship of their own ideology and you can see so clearly what they're worshiping and it's not God because there's no mention of Jesus stung on the cross just no mention mention of the gospel of his sinless life it's all about trying to pull things out of the Jesus story of the Bible that will affirm their own agenda that will affirm their own beliefs things that aren't even true or things that are phrased really weirdly like Jesus had two dads it's like that is so weird why would you do that when you do it because it affirms what you already believe about the world and your own preconceived notions about how this all should be oriented of course you know Jesus has two dads that's good like he's got two to gay dads it's like they know that's not true but they're still gonna say it why because they want to be provocateurs because they want the biblical narrative to affirm their beliefs there's a lot of reasons for it ultimately it's rebellion ultimately it's rebellion against God in worship of things that are not of him I think of Aaron when he made the golden calf Moses was up getting the Ten Commandments and everyone's like hey Aaron we want somebody to worship we want somebody to continue to lead us and so Aaron's like okay let's get all the gold together that's gonna you know melt it down and form this golden calf and it will continue to take us to where we need to be let's make a sacrifice to it and everyone starts worshipping it and you're like what is going on okay why are people doing this well number one God's commandments are absent okay Moses is on the mountain he's getting the commandments God's commandments are absent and everyone turns to idol worship you think about this sparkle creed church are God's commandments present well everyone's got their conscience right but they're in rebellion against him so there's no adherence to the commandments when it says you know love the Lord your God with all your heart with all your mind with all your soul and love your neighbor as yourself like the two greatest commandments when they when Jesus talks about the the whole law of God being summed up in those commandments is there any adherence to those things not at all those things have been disposed of for self love for what I believe I should be now we were all there at some point worshiping things that were not God rebelling against him but God and his grace saved us and that's what we're calling people to is to recognize these are idols these are not things that will satisfy you and in fact you were rebelling against the God who created you by worshipping them she uses this phrase love is love this is a really common phrase simply saying that you know all love is basically equal whether it's gay love straight love trans love whatever place on the spectrum polyamorous love it's all love but then you begin to ask people a little bit deeper and you say oh what about a man that loves a little boy in that way is that okay and maybe your culture is going in the direction where they begin to say yeah more and more yeah it's okay when you look at minor attracted persons or maps it's like okay this is absolutely insane that our culture is accepting this it's becoming more normalized but I think for most people they would still say no that's wrong that's a wrong kind of love and we kind of find a real important truth here that love when it's oriented at the wrong thing it's wrong right when love is oriented in a wrong way that's not love and so when we what we should do is we should love what is good and hate what is evil that's actually what Romans 12 9 says let us love what is genuine abhor what is evil hold fast to what is good if your love is oriented in the wrong way if it's directed at the wrong object that love is not good now just in case there was any confusion this lady is not a pastor this church is not a church it's just a building where people gather and they hang out and they say bunch of stuff and it goes viral on social media and it's it's a trans church a church that pretends to be a church but it is nothing of the sort what do we do with this outrage what do we do with this maybe holy anger that hopefully we have towards this just disgusting perversion of Jesus in the gospel because it's okay to have anger towards us that's a that's an alright thing but the Bible says be angry and do not sin and so we need to understand also where we stand before God that we on our own we have nothing we are only saved by the grace of God that we're just beggars that have found bread and so we shouldn't stand on our high horse but at the same time we do have a standard that we can say this is wrong this is this is just disgusting and a perversion and taking of things that are holy and bringing them down to the level of the muck and the mire so that's what we we can say to this absolutely but we shouldn't let that just stew in that anger or stew in that frustration at the world but rather let that lead us to movement to firm up our grasp on the gospel what is the gospel truly do you know the gospel because maybe you're watching this sparkle creed and you're saying this is ridiculous this is stupid you know this is a mockery of church and of the gospel and of Jesus and that's alright and that's good but if you don't know the truth if you are not able to verbalize okay what did Jesus actually come here to do right what was his mission here if it wasn't just to wear a fabulous tunic and have two dads then what was here to do because that's what's gonna change people's hearts it's going to be the gospel it's going to be the Holy Spirit working through us as we verbalize the truth to these folks that are so deceived and in rebellion against God so what did Jesus come to do well he came to live the sinless life that we couldn't live and die on the cross the death we deserve to die for our sins against God that's something this lady this pastor lady will never tell you about sin and about judgment and about wrath but it's only when we understand those things that we can truly understand the grace and the mercy and the redemption that Jesus has provided in his sacrifice on our behalf and the good news is that through that receiving of his grace and putting our faith in him repenting for our sins we find a new identity in him where we no longer worship our identity of who we once were of our sin of our rebellion of our sexuality whatever that looked like of a perversion but now we find a new identity in God and and who he calls us and he calls us his children and now we delight to follow him it's not this this heavy burden on our shoulders and how I need to be good I need to measure up to the standard of perfection but rather Jesus has met that standard of perfection and now as his child I can delightfully pursue the calling that he has on my life and this is an amazing invitation that we have to bring forward to people and so this is the distinction here don't let this outrage of what you're seeing in this video lead you to despair but rather let it lead you to delight knowing that Jesus is victorious over all of it and he is equipping you even now to go out and share this gospel with people that are deceived that are in rebellion and he's going to work through that and that is an amazing amazing message if you got something from this video subscribe because I'm putting out new 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